So, in his novel (which I again remind everyone I haven’t read; yet), Clarke pulled out all the Biblical stops?

And yet, um …

… I have just no idea.

If this is in Clarke’s novel, he was really pushing all the Bible buttons:

I have my doubts, however …

… that a hematological carcinoma happens like that!

And this brings up a problem with adapting something from 1953. Blood cancers have become one of the most treatable forms of the disease. Cures are scientific today, not miraculous. And we don’t need rare, hard-to-make cures from Satan, or Karellen, or aliens, or whatever. We stupid humans are getting there on our own.